Re: Laptop prob with Deb. 1.3.1

1998-02-03 Thread bhmit1
For many laptops, especially the toshibas, try the tecra patched disks in the special directory. Brandon On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Timothy Bostrom wrote: > I just bought a Toshiba 440CDX and tried to install Debian 1.3.1. Every > time I put the boot disk in the floppy, the laptop would reboot right a

Re: Laptop prob with Deb. 1.3.1

1998-02-03 Thread Steve Hsieh
Try using the tecra bootdisks inside disks-i386/special to see if you can boot linux via floppies. If that works for you, then you're probably encountering the same bug that many laptop people have had to deal with, namely that kernels made with 'make bzImage' will not boot. If so, then all you nee